Of course you can overcome it at tile time you enter into office. But youmay have a dozen qualifications. and if you are eligible at the tille you are elected or appointed to the office that is what the vord " eligible " means. as long as the statute provides as in tlis case. If it vas " any alien eligible for final naturalization." then my friend froil Peunsylvania xvould be correct. and there would be no doubt about it. But the language of this bill is "eligible under existing. lv to become." Now. a man when le colies to tlils country may have a dozen disqualifications. He may not have lived here long enough. lie may not have been able to read and write-
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